Knocking holes in Apple’s walled garden could backfire, says securo-chap
Increased developer access to iOS 8 could result in decreased security, a mobile security expert warns.…
Monthly Archives: September 2014
SAP chaps cook up Glass Glass style apps for …WHERE are you off to with that FORKLIFT?
Cross-platform ocular softare for warehouse workers
SAP is set to preview apps for ocular computing platforms such as Google Glass.…
NHS grows a NoSQL backbone and rips out its Oracle Spine
Open source? In the government? Ha ha! What, wait …?
The NHS has ripped the Oracle backbone from a national patient database system and inserted NoSQL running on an open-source stack.…
Keep that consumer browser tat away from our software says Oracle
Big Red decides it will only support Firefox’s Extended Support Releases
Oracle has announced that it has certified four versions of Firefox’s Extended Support releases, but can’t be bothered even trying to keep up with the open-source browser’s consumer version.…
Straight to video: Facebook to add ‘view counts’ to autoplay newsfeed vids
Will mobile bills rocket?
Facebook has apparently watched video views explode since the free content ad network decided to set them to play automatically on its News Feed.…
Nvidia builds CUDA GPU programming library for machine learning – so you don’t have to
Craft a deep neural network on a graphics chipset
Nvidia has released a set of software routines for accelerating machine-learning algorithms on its parallelized graphics processors.…
Fedora gets new partition manager
GParted for a new era
Fedora developer Vratislav Podzimek wants partition managers to catch up with modern storage technologies, and has launched his offering, blivet-gui, on the waiting world.…
HAMR time for Google’s MapReduce, says not-so-startup
Flowlets, break it down
Like the idea of chewing on terabytes data using Google’s MapReduce but think it’s too slow, too hardware-hungry and too complicated?…
If your kid blew $$$s on in-app tat, Google has a slice of $19m+ for you
FTC settlement puts spotlight on Amazon’s in-app activities
Google has promised to return at least $19m (£11.6m) to parents who were unexpectedly billed for in-app purchases made by their kids.…
WordPress 4.0 is here, complete with one-click upgrade process
Don’t relax yet, sysadmins, there’s still a chance for some big messes here
WordPress 4.0 has landed, which is kind of a big deal seeing as the blogging/content management software runs around 60 million websites.…